Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-05
FLORIDA.

Mrs. Julia F. BrIant, of woman suffrage
persuasion, has purchased twenty acres
of land on Eagle lake, near Barlow, for
winter home.
William Lyle, of Barlow, bought few
days ago fourteen deer skins from one
man, who killed that many during five
DAYS hunt in the Lake Kissimmee region.
Near Barlow corn is foot high this
spring, watermelon vines already rum
ming and cucumbers blooming, while
strawberries are in good supply at 25c,
per quart.
At Palatka Wednesday j. H. Hubbard
raised a kite which was eight feet long
and the tail eighty feet in length. The
cord was about one mile in length. 1t re-
quired the services of twelve boys to get
the kite afOat.
The 100 acres of land, constituting the
possessions OF the WekiWa Land Compa-
ny, about the head OF tne Wekiwa river,
has passed into the possession of the Silver
Springs, Orlando and Gulf railroad peo-
pie. Consideration $12, 900.
Robert IL. Cope, who was formerly
citizen of Suwanee county, was shot and
killed near Fayetteville, in Lafayette
county, one day last week by some party
secreted in the bushes. There was u
grudge existing between Mr.. Cope and
some parties with whom he had row
last year, and it is supposed that they
are the murderers.
There are about 100 Italians camping
about, in different places, between Or
lando and Apopka. Thirty arrived in
Orlando Wednesday morning, and are
now looking for work of any kind at any
price. Many of them, it is said, are on
the verge of starvation, and in the last
extremity resort to eating a kind OF
grass, which they boil, that grows in that
section. AS a clearer of land, the Italian
Is said to be unequaled, and 1T certainly
seems that he might find employment of
this kind at least.
Senator Jones, who has been a resident
of Detroit during the past two years,
| having an elegant suite of rooms at the
Russell House, is preparing to return to
Florida, and says he will depart for PEN
sacola next week. He is in apparent good
health and spirits, and to a casual ac-
quaintance betrays no evidence OF an I'M
sound mind. He says, however, that he
will be a candidate before the Florida
Legislature for reelection, and that he is
almost certain that he will be successful.
The next strongest candidate, he says.
is his warm frhnd, ex-Gov. Blox-
hanr. He has prepared for use
delivered by himself at Philadelphia
some four years ago, lin which passages of
a fraternal nature conveying sentiments
spoken by Mr.. I'll. w. Grady in his recent
New York speech are printed in black
type. He talks well, especially on poiti-
cal questions, but Is reticent concerning
the cause OF his absence from Washing
ton. He rarely refers to the subject, but
when he does treats IL lightly, and says
nobody expects such Senators as Fair
and Stanford TO nil their seats, and that
he has q right also TO absent himself.
All the stories 10 the effect that he is
smltten with Miss Palm. and that he has
prosecuted her with his attentions are
untrue. lie has not been in love VITA
her, and would hardly know her were he
TO meet her on the street. He says that
Hobody but knaves and fools would write
or believe the stories that have been cir
culated about him. lie does not drink,
gamble or dissipate I'm any manner 80 far
as known, and IL is believed that he has
no income except his salary, which is
barely sufficient to support him and his
sons, who have visited Detroit frequently
during his sojourn there and have been IN
cnned TO enjoy themselves.
Monticello Constitution: On last Fri
day night. Feb. 20, negro man by the
name OF Henry Thompson, who lives on
the "Dillworth plantation" SIX miles
west OF town, was given a "surDrise
party" by four or five men, who claimed
to shall from Georgy." For several
| years Henry has not borne that reputa-
tion fol honesty which seems to be the
pride and boast Of so large n majority or
! his fellow-citizens, and these midnight
! visitors from the good old commonwealth
of "Georgy" made him this special visit
to very iorcibly impress upon his mind
that good OLD adage that: "HOnesty is the
best policy" The mede OF Undressing 1t
! upon mis- memory (which may be q little